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April 27, 2006

G20-21-22: Red Sox at Cleveland

0427, 6 PM - Was hoping to find a bar with the Sox game on ESPN, but it turns out we have to get up at about 4:45 tomorrow/Friday morning to take a four-hour train from Cuzco to Machu Picchu. So it´ll be an early night.

0426, 7 PM: We are in Cuzco tonight and Thursday. Maybe we´ll find a bar with ESPN for tomorrow nights game.

Nice to see Manny come through last night, after Schilling was left in for the seventh. I was following along for the 7th via Gameday and it seemed like a mistake even before the game-tying hits. 133 pitches -- WTF? ... Tonight: Go Timmy!

0425, 9:30 AM - We have landed safely in Peru. I thought the country was in the eastern time zone, but apparently it is one hour west/earlier. And you know what time that is, right?

One must never forget that Roger is, at his core, an ass-hole. Thus he is drawn to the Yankees like the swallows are drawn to Capistrano. He can't help it.

This is a guy who demanded that the Sox make him the highest paid pitcher in the game after pitching .500 ball for four years, who said he would only leave Boston to be closer to his family in Texas and then signed with Toronto; who "retired," accepted expensive gifts and standing ovations, and then unretired by the beginning of the next season. Class act all the way.

Terry surprised me: I was thinking that if I was managing I'd put Wily Mo in cneter to get the offense going, and he actually tried it: gutsy, given WMP's misadventures in Fenway. So now Loretta and Youk stop hitting.